Welcome to the Cold War Commanders, a blog I am using to chart the exploits of the 'Cold War Commanders' a small group of chaps who, inspired by books like World War III, Red Storm Rising and the 'Effect' Series by Harvey Black, wargame fictitious Cold War battles in 6mm using the Cold War Commander rules by Peter Andrew Jones. I hope to include information about our games,our terrain and also include resources useful to other Cold War gamers. Picture 2017 Grimsby

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

One of the things we always seem to need more of in our big games are bridges. So I was delighted to see Steve Clay at Battlescale was planning on producing some new 6mm bridges. I contacted Steve and asked what his plans were for the road surface and also what the width of the roadway would be. The roadway would be 27mm wide approx which suits most of our basing. His original plan was to have a cobbled road surface but this wouldn't work with what I needed so after a chat with Steve he agreed to produce two models one cobbled and one plain.

So a couple of weeks later four of the new bridges arrived and I painted them up to match our vinyl floor tiles roads. They are absolutely fantastic models and suit our needs perfectly. I also plan to get some of the cobbled versions as they will work with our other roads.

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

The theme of the Cold War Commanders for 2018 will be Norway 1985 - Arctic Strike. I am pleased to announce that after the success of this years event we will be returning to the Grimsby Wargames Society for the 2018 event. As well as this weekend Mark F and the Berkeley Vale chaps are also planning a weekend earlier in 2018 at the Tudor Arms in Slimbridge. Details of this should be available shortly and I think the plan is again to link that weekend to the Grimsby weekend with the theme being Norway 1985.

House rules worked well, still a few little things that needed sorting, and a new updated set will be sent out in the next couple of weeks. Idea being players have plenty of time to familiarise themselves with the extra rules. Some players submitted ideas for rules that we felt were over complicating the system, I think we all understand the level of abstraction within CWC can cause a few issues, but they work as a set of rules. Some rules that have been suggested and would work, like the small vehicle rules, have not been included in the House Rules, but we plan to incorporate them into amended Army Lists as a note against the vehicle.

The plan at this early stage is to have 4 tables, one big one downstairs and three upstairs. This would give us an 18' x 6' table downstairs and upstairs we would have a 16' x 6' table, a 9' x 5' table and a 10' x 5' table.

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ARCTIC STRIKE - 2018 CWC WEEKEND

The COLD WAR COMMANDERS are pleased to announce that they will be returning to the Grimsby Wargames Society for their 2018 CWC Weekend 'ARCTIC STRIKE'. Date TBC (late Sept/early Oct). The game will be set in 1985 and will see Warsaw Pact forces and NATO forces battle it out to take control of Norway. The game will be played over 300 square feet of superb terrain. Places are limited but if you are interested please contact me at kaygillick@btinternet.com.

NEWS - Joy of Six 2018

The COLD WAR COMMANDERS will again be attending the Joy of Six wargames show to be held at the Heartspace of Sheffield Hallam University July 2018. If you would like to get involved please contact me.

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Cold War Commanders

The beginnings of the Cold War Commanders goes back to 2012 and a small school hall in the wonderful village of Dungworth, near Sheffield. One of our esteemed brethren, a Mr Richard Crawley, had the crazy idea to hold a huge 6mm CWC gaming weekend played over three large tables, using hundreds of bases of infantry and armoured fighting vehicles. So on April 20th 2012 the forces gathered and over the following two days battle raged across West Germany and Holland as the Warsaw Pact invaders fought their way across Western Europe in 1985. Since that initial weekend there has been five more annual games, Arctic Strike - The Invasion of Norway 1985 held again at Dungworth in 2013, The Tide is Turning - NATO Counterattack in Southern Germany 1985 held at the Deeside Defenders club in Broughton, near Chester in 2014, The Battle of Hanover 1985 again held in Broughton in 2015, Aegean Strike 1985 held at Broughton in 2016 and Landjut 1989 held at the Grimsby Wargames Society in 2017. Over the past six years there has been a core of players who have supported these events spending hours working on OOB's, building terrain and spending hours huddled over painting tables and these fine gents have joined together to form the